guilty - Story 59608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the photographs, and the room started to spin. His grandmother, the matriarch who had controlled every aspect of his family's narrative, was holding hands with a person he didn’t recognize. His grandfather was nowhere to be seen. The story had always been different. Always.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt trapped. He needed to get out of the house. Now.

He scrambled to gather the photographs back up and stuff them into the drawer. He told himself it was just a dream, a figment of his imagination.

Emotion: guilty

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion guilty. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 guilty stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the guilty emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the guilty vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.492
`L`	0.398
`탓`	0.354
`been`	0.323
`ashamed`	0.319

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.400
`(!)`	-0.279
`la`	-0.276
`😍`	-0.274
`"!`	-0.264